14 Jan, 2011
13 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (41 commits)
fs: add documentation on fallocate hole punching
Gfs2: fail if we try to use hole punch
Btrfs: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ext4: fail if we try to use hole punch
Ocfs2: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
XFS: handle hole punching via fallocate properly
fs: add hole punching to fallocate
vfs: pass struct file to do_truncate on O_TRUNC opens (try #2)
fix signedness mess in rw_verify_area() on 64bit architectures
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::prepend_path
fs: fix kernel-doc for dcache::d_validate
sanitize ecryptfs ->mount()
switch afs
move internal-only parts of ncpfs headers to fs/ncpfs
switch ncpfs
switch 9p
pass default dentry_operations to mount_pseudo()
switch hostfs
switch affs
switch configfs
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* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Fix spelling mistakes in comments
Revert conflicting V4L changes
i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
mm/rmap.c: fix comment
sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
init/Kconfig: fix typo
anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
poll: fix a typo in comment
...Fix up trivial conflicts in:
- drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
- fs/ext4/ext4.hAlso fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
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MONOTONIC_RAW clock timestamps are ideally suited for frequency
calculation and also fit well into the original NTP hardpps design. Now
phase and frequency can be adjusted separately: the former based on
REALTIME clock and the latter based on MONOTONIC_RAW clock.A new function getnstime_raw_and_real is added to timekeeping subsystem to
capture both timestamps at the same time and atomically.Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev
Acked-by: John Stultz
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This commit adds hardpps() implementation based upon the original one from
the NTPv4 reference kernel code from David Mills. However, it is highly
optimized towards very fast syncronization and maximum stickness to PPS
signal. The typical error is less then a microsecond.To make it sync faster I had to throw away exponential phase filter so
that the full phase offset is corrected immediately. Then I also had to
throw away median phase filter because it gives a bigger error itself if
used without exponential filter.Maybe we will find an appropriate filtering scheme in the future but it's
not necessary if the signal quality is ok.Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev
Acked-by: John Stultz
Cc: Rodolfo Giometti
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit 4be2c95d ("taskstats: pad taskstats netlink response for aligment
issues on ia64") added a null field to align the taskstats structure but
the discussion centered around ia64. The issue exists on other platforms
with inefficient unaligned access and adding them piecemeal would be an
unmaintainable mess.This patch uses Dave Miller's suggestion of using a combination of
CONFIG_64BIT && !CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS to determine
whether alignment is needed.Note that this will cause breakage on those platforms with applications
like iotop which had hard-coded offsets into the packet to access the
taskstats structure.The message seen on systems without the alignment fixes looks like: kernel
unaligned access to 0xe000023879dca9bc, ip=0xa000000100133d10The addresses may vary but resolve to locations inside __delayacct_add_tsk.
iotop makes what I'd call unreasonable assumptions about the contents of a
netlink genetlink packet containing generic attributes. They're typed and
have headers that specify value lengths, so the client can (should)
identify and skip the ones the client doesn't understand.The kernel, as of version 2.6.36, presented a packet like so:
+--------------------------------+
| genlmsghdr - 4 bytes |
+--------------------------------+
| NLA header - 4 bytes | /* Aggregate header */
+-+------------------------------+
| | NLA header - 4 bytes | /* PID header */
| +------------------------------+
| | pid/tgid - 4 bytes |
| +------------------------------+
| | NLA header - 4 bytes | /* stats header */
| + -----------------------------+
Reported-by: David S. Miller
Acked-by: David S. Miller
Cc: Dan Carpenter
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Florian Mickler
Cc: Guillaume Chazarain
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Currently on 64-bit arch the user_namespace is 2096 and when being
kmalloc-ed it resides on a 4k slab wasting 2003 bytes.If we allocate a separate cache for it and reduce the hash size from 128
to 64 chains the packaging becomes *much* better - the struct is 1072
bytes and the hole between is 98 bytes.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/__initcall/module_init/]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
ctl_unnumbered.txt have been removed in Documentation directory so just
also remove this invalid comments[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix Documentation/sysctl/00-INDEX, per Dave]
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang
Cc: Dave Young
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhang
Acked-by: WANG Cong
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use temporary lr for struct latency_record for improved readability and
fewer columns used. Removed trailing space from output.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Cc: Jiri Kosina
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
dump_list_lock is used to protect dump_list in kmsg_dumper implementation,
kmsg_dump() uses it to traverse dump_list too. But if there is contention
on the lock, kmsg_dump() will fail, and the valuable kernel message may be
lost.This patch solves this issue with RCU. Because kmsg_dump() only read the
list, no lock is needed in kmsg_dump(). So that kmsg_dump() will never
fail because of lock contention.Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add the %pK printk format specifier and the /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
sysctl.The %pK format specifier is designed to hide exposed kernel pointers,
specifically via /proc interfaces. Exposing these pointers provides an
easy target for kernel write vulnerabilities, since they reveal the
locations of writable structures containing easily triggerable function
pointers. The behavior of %pK depends on the kptr_restrict sysctl.If kptr_restrict is set to 0, no deviation from the standard %p behavior
occurs. If kptr_restrict is set to 1, the default, if the current user
(intended to be a reader via seq_printf(), etc.) does not have CAP_SYSLOG
(currently in the LSM tree), kernel pointers using %pK are printed as 0's.
If kptr_restrict is set to 2, kernel pointers using %pK are printed as
0's regardless of privileges. Replacing with 0's was chosen over the
default "(null)", which cannot be parsed by userland %p, which expects
"(nil)".[akpm@linux-foundation.org: check for IRQ context when !kptr_restrict, save an indent level, s/WARN/WARN_ONCE/]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: fix kernel/sysctl.c warning]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Eric Dumazet
Cc: Thomas Graf
Cc: Eugene Teo
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Eric ParisSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
For arch which needs USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, it has to select
USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, rather than leaving a choice to user, since they
don't provide their own implementions.Also, move on_each_cpu() to kernel/smp.c, it is strange to put it in
kernel/softirq.c.For arch which doesn't use USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, e.g. blackfin, only
on_each_cpu() is compiled.Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
We need to know the reason why system rebooted in support service.
However, we can't inform our customers of the reason because final
messages are lost on current Linux kernel.This patch improves the situation above because the final messages are
saved by adding kmsg_dump() to reboot, halt, poweroff and
emergency_restart path.Signed-off-by: Seiji Aguchi
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Marco Stornelli
Reviewed-by: Artem Bityutskiy
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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switching it to s_d_op allows to kill the cgroup_lookup() kludge.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
12 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (28 commits)
perf session: Fix infinite loop in __perf_session__process_events
perf evsel: Support perf_evsel__open(cpus > 1 && threads > 1)
perf sched: Use PTHREAD_STACK_MIN to avoid pthread_attr_setstacksize() fail
perf tools: Emit clearer message for sys_perf_event_open ENOENT return
perf stat: better error message for unsupported events
perf sched: Fix allocation result check
perf, x86: P4 PMU - Fix unflagged overflows handling
dynamic debug: Fix build issue with older gcc
tracing: Fix TRACE_EVENT power tracepoint creation
tracing: Fix preempt count leak
tracepoint: Add __rcu annotation
tracing: remove duplicate null-pointer check in skb tracepoint
tracing/trivial: Add missing comma in TRACE_EVENT comment
tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h
x86: Save rbp in pt_regs on irq entry
x86, dumpstack: Fix unused variable warning
x86, NMI: Clean-up default_do_nmi()
x86, NMI: Allow NMI reason io port (0x61) to be processed on any CPU
x86, NMI: Remove DIE_NMI_IPI
x86, NMI: Add priorities to handlers
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11 Jan, 2011
3 commits
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: (30 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Add tomoyo-dev-en ML.
SELinux: define permissions for DCB netlink messages
encrypted-keys: style and other cleanup
encrypted-keys: verify datablob size before converting to binary
trusted-keys: kzalloc and other cleanup
trusted-keys: additional TSS return code and other error handling
syslog: check cap_syslog when dmesg_restrict
Smack: Transmute labels on specified directories
selinux: cache sidtab_context_to_sid results
SELinux: do not compute transition labels on mountpoint labeled filesystems
This patch adds a new security attribute to Smack called SMACK64EXEC. It defines label that is used while task is running.
SELinux: merge policydb_index_classes and policydb_index_others
selinux: convert part of the sym_val_to_name array to use flex_array
selinux: convert type_val_to_struct to flex_array
flex_array: fix flex_array_put_ptr macro to be valid C
SELinux: do not set automatic i_ino in selinuxfs
selinux: rework security_netlbl_secattr_to_sid
SELinux: standardize return code handling in selinuxfs.c
SELinux: standardize return code handling in selinuxfs.c
SELinux: standardize return code handling in policydb.c
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* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild-2.6:
mkuboot.sh: Fail if mkimage is missing
gen_init_cpio: checkpatch fixes
gen_init_cpio: Avoid race between call to stat() and call to open()
modpost: Fix address calculation in reloc_location()
Make fixdep error handling more explicit
checksyscalls: Fix stand-alone usage
modpost: Put .zdebug* section on white list
kbuild: fix interaction of CONFIG_IKCONFIG and KCONFIG_CONFIG
kbuild: export linux/{a.out,kvm,kvm_para}.h on headers_install_all
kbuild: introduce HDR_ARCH_LIST for headers_install_all
headers_install: check exit status of unifdef
gen_init_cpio: remove leading `/' from file names
scripts/genksyms: fix header usage
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
spi / PM: Support dev_pm_ops
PM: Prototype the pm_generic_ operations
PM / Runtime: Generic resume shouldn't set RPM_ACTIVE unconditionally
PM: Use dev_name() in core device suspend and resume routines
PM: Permit registration of parentless devices during system suspend
PM: Replace the device power.status field with a bit field
PM: Remove redundant checks from core device resume routines
PM: Use a different list of devices for each stage of device suspend
PM: Avoid compiler warning in pm_noirq_op()
PM: Use pm_wakeup_pending() in __device_suspend()
PM / Wakeup: Replace pm_check_wakeup_events() with pm_wakeup_pending()
PM: Prevent dpm_prepare() from returning errors unnecessarily
PM: Fix references to basic-pm-debugging.txt in drivers-testing.txt
PM / Runtime: Add synchronous runtime interface for interrupt handlers (v3)
PM / Hibernate: When failed, in_suspend should be reset
PM / Hibernate: hibernation_ops->leave should be checked too
Freezer: Fix a race during freezing of TASK_STOPPED tasks
PM: Use proper ccflag flag in kernel/power/Makefile
PM / Runtime: Fix comments to match runtime callback code
10 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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Conflicts:
security/smack/smack_lsm.cVerified and added fix by Stephen Rothwell
Ok'd by Casey SchauflerSigned-off-by: James Morris
09 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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…stedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent
08 Jan, 2011
7 commits
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DEFINE_TRACE should also exist when CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING=n. Otherwise, setting
only TRACEPOINTS=y is broken.Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
While running my ftrace stress test, this showed up:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at mm/mmap.c:233
...
note: cat[3293] exited with preempt_count 1The bug was introduced by commit 91e86e560d0b3ce4c5fc64fd2bbb99f856a30a4e
("tracing: Fix recursive user stack trace")Cc:
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (30 commits)
gameport: use this_cpu_read instead of lookup
x86: udelay: Use this_cpu_read to avoid address calculation
x86: Use this_cpu_inc_return for nmi counter
x86: Replace uses of current_cpu_data with this_cpu ops
x86: Use this_cpu_ops to optimize code
vmstat: User per cpu atomics to avoid interrupt disable / enable
irq_work: Use per cpu atomics instead of regular atomics
cpuops: Use cmpxchg for xchg to avoid lock semantics
x86: this_cpu_cmpxchg and this_cpu_xchg operations
percpu: Generic this_cpu_cmpxchg() and this_cpu_xchg support
percpu,x86: relocate this_cpu_add_return() and friends
connector: Use this_cpu operations
xen: Use this_cpu_inc_return
taskstats: Use this_cpu_ops
random: Use this_cpu_inc_return
fs: Use this_cpu_inc_return in buffer.c
highmem: Use this_cpu_xx_return() operations
vmstat: Use this_cpu_inc_return for vm statistics
x86: Support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add, sub, dec, inc_return
...Fixed up conflicts: in arch/x86/kernel/{apic/nmi.c, apic/x2apic_uv_x.c, process.c}
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* 'for-2.6.38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (33 commits)
usb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
speedtch: don't abuse struct delayed_work
media/video: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
media/video: explicitly flush request_module work
ioc4: use static work_struct for ioc4_load_modules()
init: don't call flush_scheduled_work() from do_initcalls()
s390: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
rtc: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
mmc: update workqueue usages
mfd: update workqueue usages
dvb: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
leds-wm8350: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
mISDN: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
macintosh/ams: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
vmwgfx: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
tpm: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
sonypi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
hvsi: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
xen: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
gdrom: don't use flush_scheduled_work()
...Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-input.c
as per Tejun. -
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* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: Constify function scope static struct sched_param usage
sched: Fix strncmp operation
sched: Move sched_autogroup_exit() to free_signal_struct()
sched: Fix struct autogroup memory leak
sched: Mark autogroup_init() __init
sched: Consolidate the name of root_task_group and init_task_group -
* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (36 commits)
serial: apbuart: Fixup apbuart_console_init()
TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.
tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
drivers: serial: apbuart: Handle OF failures gracefully
Serial: Avoid unbalanced IRQ wake disable during resume
tty: fix typos/errors in tty_driver.h comments
pch_uart : fix warnings for 64bit compile
8250: fix uninitialized FIFOs
ip2: fix compiler warning on ip2main_pci_tbl
specialix: fix compiler warning on specialix_pci_tbl
rocket: fix compiler warning on rocket_pci_ids
8250: add a UPIO_DWAPB32 for 32 bit accesses
8250: use container_of() instead of casting
serial: omap-serial: Add support for kernel debugger
serial: fix pch_uart kconfig & build
drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support
RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART description
serial: ifx6x60: fix memory leak
serial: ifx6x60: free IRQ on error
Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver
...Fixed up conflicts in drivers/serial/apbuart.c with evil merge that
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* 'vfs-scale-working' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/npiggin/linux-npiggin: (57 commits)
fs: scale mntget/mntput
fs: rename vfsmount counter helpers
fs: implement faster dentry memcmp
fs: prefetch inode data in dcache lookup
fs: improve scalability of pseudo filesystems
fs: dcache per-inode inode alias locking
fs: dcache per-bucket dcache hash locking
bit_spinlock: add required includes
kernel: add bl_list
xfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
btrfs: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
ext2,3,4: provide simple rcu-walk ACL implementation
fs: provide simple rcu-walk generic_check_acl implementation
fs: provide rcu-walk aware permission i_ops
fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
fs: cache optimise dentry and inode for rcu-walk
fs: dcache reduce branches in lookup path
fs: dcache remove d_mounted
fs: fs_struct use seqlock
fs: rcu-walk for path lookup
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07 Jan, 2011
13 commits
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Function-scope statics are discouraged because they are
easily overlooked and can cause subtle bugs/races due to
their global (non-SMP safe) nature.Linus noticed that we did this for sched_param - at minimum
make the const.Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference: Message-ID:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
One of the operands, buf, is incorrect, since it is stripped and the
correct address for subsequent string comparing could change if
leading white spaces, if any, are removed from buf.It is fixed by replacing buf with cmp.
Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Per Oleg's suggestion, undo fork failure free/put_signal_struct change,
and move sched_autogroup_exit() to free_signal_struct() instead.Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Seems I lost a change somewhere, leaking memory.
sched: fix struct autogroup memory leak
Add missing change to actually use autogroup_free().
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
autogroup_init() is only called at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang
Cc: Mike Galbraith
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
root_task_group is the leftover of USER_SCHED, now it's always
same to init_task_group.
But as Mike suggested, root_task_group is maybe the suitable name
to keep for a tree.
So in this patch:
init_task_group --> root_task_group
init_task_group_load --> root_task_group_load
INIT_TASK_GROUP_LOAD --> ROOT_TASK_GROUP_LOADSuggested-by: Mike Galbraith
Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Adds perf_event_time() to try and centralize access to event
timing and in particular ctx->time. Prepares for cgroup support.Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Replace all occurrences of:
event->cpu != -1 && event->cpu == smp_processor_id()
by a call to:
event_filter_match(event)This makes the code more consistent and will make the cgroup
patch smaller.Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
In particular this patch move perf_event_exit_task() before
cgroup_exit() to allow for cgroup support. The cgroup_exit()
function detaches the cgroups attached to a task.Other movements include hoisting some definitions and inlines
at the top of perf_event.cSigned-off-by: Stephane Eranian
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Reduce some branches and memory accesses in dcache lookup by adding dentry
flags to indicate common d_ops are set, rather than having to check them.
This saves a pointer memory access (dentry->d_op) in common path lookup
situations, and saves another pointer load and branch in cases where we
have d_op but not the particular operation.Patched with:
git grep -E '[.>]([[:space:]])*d_op([[:space:]])*=' | xargs sed -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)->d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\1, \2);/' -e 's/\([^\t ]*\)\.d_op = \(.*\);/d_set_d_op(\&\1, \2);/' -i
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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dget_locked was a shortcut to avoid the lazy lru manipulation when we already
held dcache_lock (lru manipulation was relatively cheap at that point).
However, how that the lru lock is an innermost one, we never hold it at any
caller, so the lock cost can now be avoided. We already have well working lazy
dcache LRU, so it should be fine to defer LRU manipulations to scan time.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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dcache_lock no longer protects anything. remove it.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
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Protect d_subdirs and d_child with d_lock, except in filesystems that aren't
using dcache_lock for these anyway (eg. using i_mutex).Note: if we change the locking rule in future so that ->d_child protection is
provided only with ->d_parent->d_lock, it may allow us to reduce some locking.
But it would be an exception to an otherwise regular locking scheme, so we'd
have to see some good results. Probably not worthwhile.Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin
